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National Weather Service map from around 1:40 p.m. Thursday, August 8, 2024 shows the northern band of Debby sweeping towards Staunton, Virginia. 1:30 p.m. Augusta County has sand and sandbags ...
Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, [2] access to the operations center is available via State Route 601 (also called Blueridge Mountain Road) in Bluemont, Virginia. [7] The facility is located near Purcellville, Virginia, 51 miles (82 km) west of Washington, D.C. [8] The site was originally opened as a weather station in the late 1800s. [9]
The NRQZ includes portions of West Virginia and Virginia and a small part of Maryland. The National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ) is a large area of land in the United States designated as a radio quiet zone, in which radio transmissions are restricted by law to facilitate scientific research and the gathering of military intelligence.
NEXRAD or Nexrad (Next-Generation Radar) is a network of 159 high-resolution S-band Doppler weather radars operated by the National Weather Service (NWS), an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the United States Department of Commerce, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) within the Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Air Force within the ...
Safecast is an international, volunteer-centered organization devoted to open citizen science for environmental monitoring.Safecast was established by Sean Bonner, Pieter Franken, and Joi Ito shortly after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, following the TÅhoku earthquake on 11 March 2011 and manages a global open data network for ionizing radiation and air quality monitoring.
The NSA is a focal point for atmospheric and ecological research activity in the Arctic. Scientists use data from the NSA to improve the representation of high-latitude cloud and radiation processes in earth system models. The Eastern North Atlantic atmospheric observatory [5] is the newest measurement site established by the ARM user facility.
A reading is taken from each of the over 200 stations every hour [2] [3] and an alert triggered if radiation levels for specific isotopes rise significantly above normal background radiation levels at one or more stations. RREMS replaced the older Radioactive Incident Monitoring Network (RIMNET) system in September 2022. [4]
Kentucky Route 80 runs alongside the Russell Fork from Millard to just shy of the Virginia state line. There it turns northeasterly along the west bank of Grassy Creek, which lies inside Virginia and forms the line between Buchanan and Dickenson Counties, in order to avoid the deep gorge through Breaks Interstate Park. Route 80 soon crosses ...